The main reason is strictly personal....

Posted on 8/6/1992 by STRACZYNSKI [Joe] to GENIE

The main reason is strictly personal. As I said, the Magic Con is onSaturday, that's when my presentation was scheduled, around noon. Now, wefinish shooting the day before, on Friday. As it's scheduled now, we willprobably finish the actual shoot around 7 or 8 o'clock, longer if we need anypickup shots. Then will come the wrap party, which has to be that nightbecause the day after, everyone goes off in different directions until we getmoving on the series.

Which gives me only two options: 1) Take the redeye out of LAX and arrivein Orlando around 2 a.m. (assuming that I could even get it), or 2) get zerosleep, catch a flight out of LAX at the crack of dawn, get to Orlando withmaybe an hour to spare, rush to the hotel, rush to the presentation, find theroom....

Madness. Especially knowing the shape I'm going to be in when we finishshooting. By contrast, San Francisco is a half-hour or so flight, I can takeit late in the morning on Saturday, and all will be well.

It's simply a question of *time* and *distance*. It's not a matter of,"Why choose THIS convention over THAT convention," I'm not choosing EITHERconvention; I'm choosing a location, and not killing myself in the process.If the Magic Con were in San Francisco, or even Phoenix, or Portland, that'dbe different. It's just flying cross-country under those conditions that hasfinally pushed me in this direction. My spousal overunit has been nudging mefor weeks now on this, "You KNOW you're not going to be in any shape for across-country flight the same night you finish filming," that kind of thing.And, finally, I realized that she was right. I have a tendency to try andpush myself beyond what I should, and I simply realized that this was what Iwas doing.

That is the entirety of my reasoning. I'm going to be a wreck ANYway, nomatter where I am...since I'll probably get no sleep at all during the lasttwo days of filming...but at least it won't be *as* bad this way.